I don't care about fancy-schmancy stuff like live wallpapers, custom themes, or other nonsense. All I want is the phone to be as smooth as possible. Hell, I think that the stock firmware is extremely smooth. Never once had it lock up on me or become jittery. I'm debating whether or not I should "upgrade" at all, but I do really want the capability of wireless tethering.

BTW, how do you guys retain your contacts when going from a stock firmware to a new ROM? I believe most ROM's have you perform a wipe, which will erase the contacts.

Just root install and install the apps you want. they do not need roms.. download wifitether APK and installl chevy/adams kernal and set cpu from market and walla.. you have a rooted phone with what you want and stock setup on home screens

contacts through google tittanium backup covers the rest (if you have to perform wipe)

I'm running CyanogenMod, I'm about to check out Petes New Bugless Beast just to try his Custom Script. If you have no idea about which ROMS are out then I would suggest either DroidMod or Ultimate Droid ...Personal Opinion really..Good luck

I don't care about fancy-schmancy stuff like live wallpapers, custom themes, or other nonsense. All I want is the phone to be as smooth as possible. Hell, I think that the stock firmware is extremely smooth. Never once had it lock up on me or become jittery. I'm debating whether or not I should "upgrade" at all, but I do really want the capability of wireless tethering.

BTW, how do you guys retain your contacts when going from a stock firmware to a new ROM? I believe most ROM's have you perform a wipe, which will erase the contacts.

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Only if they are a nandroid file do they require that to happen. Simply create a backup, restore the nandroid file of the rom, then restore JUST THE DATA from your backup you created before the rom.

Some roms have a update.zip file which is easier to do but you can't go from a 2.0.1 rom to a 2.1 rom using the update.zip ... you have to do nandroid.

Bugless Beast v0.8 with Chevy's 5 slot 1.2ghz kernel is my favorite setup ... not really sure what kernels have 1ghz but there are 10 slot kernels that have it in there.

I don't care about fancy-schmancy stuff like live wallpapers, custom themes, or other nonsense. All I want is the phone to be as smooth as possible. Hell, I think that the stock firmware is extremely smooth. Never once had it lock up on me or become jittery. I'm debating whether or not I should "upgrade" at all, but I do really want the capability of wireless tethering.

BTW, how do you guys retain your contacts when going from a stock firmware to a new ROM? I believe most ROM's have you perform a wipe, which will erase the contacts.

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Only if they are a nandroid file do they require that to happen. Simply create a backup, restore the nandroid file of the rom, then restore JUST THE DATA from your backup you created before the rom.

Some roms have a update.zip file which is easier to do but you can't go from a 2.0.1 rom to a 2.1 rom using the update.zip ... you have to do nandroid.

Bugless Beast v0.8 with Chevy's 5 slot 1.2ghz kernel is my favorite setup ... not really sure what kernels have 1ghz but there are 10 slot kernels that have it in there.

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You can't nandroid in the data from a 2.01 ROM to a 2.1 in my experience. I tried that just for the heck of it on Bugless Beast when his 2.1 rom first came out and had about 27 force closes before I could even get into the OS.

You can't nandroid in the data from a 2.01 ROM to a 2.1 in my experience. I tried that just for the heck of it on Bugless Beast when his 2.1 rom first came out and had about 27 force closes before I could even get into the OS.

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Really? Worked fine for me when I went from the 2.0.1 version to v0.7 (2.1). The only thing I have seen fc's on is trying to use helixlauncher2 so I just use the helixlauncher.

I'd go with Droid Mod. Simply because it has what you want and it is one of the most stable (if not the most). And it's ease of installation can't be beat.

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What makes it more stable than the zero force closes I've had on Bugless Beast? Any ROM that doesn't use the ported 2.1 launcher2 is pretty much stable unless you start trying to overclock or use voltages that your phone can't handle, and even then that isn't the ROM's stability.

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